Sportsman&#39;s cabinet



E. L. RODGERS ET AL May s, 1928-.- I 1,668,659,

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Patented May 8, 1 928.

UNITED STATES PATE NT OFFICE.

ELIZABETH RODGERS AND ALBERT F. WILLIAMS, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

SPORTSMAN S CABINET.

Application filed June 15, 1926, Serial No. 116,189. Renewed September 22, 1927.

This invention aims to provide a simple cabinet in which guns, hunting garments, fish poles, and other articles used by sportsmen, may be housed compactly, the general construction of the device being such that it will detract nothing from the appearance of the room in which it is located.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

in the drawings Figure 1 shows in front elevation, a devlce constructed in accordance with the lnvention, parts being broken away;

Figure 2 is a horizontal section;

Figure 3 is a detail enlarged from Figure 2; r

Figure 4 is a section 011 the line 44 of Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a section taken about on the line 5-5 ofFigure 1.

The device forming the subject matter of this application includes a cabinet made up of sides 1 and a bottom 2, the sides extending downwardly below the bottom, and there being a finishing strip 3 extended between the sides 1, at the forward edge of the bottom 2. The back of the cabinet is marked by the numeral 4 and the top is shown at 5. The back 4 upwardly extended, as at 6, above the top 5 and is provided with shelves T sustained by braces 8, the shelves being adapted to receive trophies, or any thing of that sort.

A front strip 9 extends between the top 5 and the bottom 2. A partition 10 extends hackwardly from the front strip 9 to the back 4. The partition 10, partof the back 4-, one of the sides 1, part of the top 5, and part of the bottom 2, cooperate todefine a chamber 11 within which are located hooks or the like, shown at 12, and upon which hunting garments or the like may be suspended. i

The chamber 11 is closed by a door 14.

about parallel to the front strip 9. The

contains the fish The door 14 is hinged at 15 to the front strip 9. A supplemental wall 16 extends inwardly from the partition 10 and is located supplemental wall 16 extends between the top 5 and the bottom 2. The supplment-ai wall 16, the partition 10, the top 5, and the bottom 2, form an elongated vertical compartment 17 which is open at its inner side. The compartment 17 is adapted to receive cleaning rods, fish poles and the like.

The device includes a box-like article can rier 18 which is open at the front. The carrier 18 includes a back 19, 21, and a bottom 22. The carrier extends between the bottom 2 of the cabinet and the top 5 of the cabinet and is hinged as at 23, to one of the sides 1 of the cabinet for horizontal swinging nmvement. The front of the box-like carrier 18 is closed by the cabinet door 14, and one of the sides 20 of the carrier 18 acts as a closure for the elongated compartment 17.

The carrier 18 is adapted to receive and hold guns, and, with this end in view, a false bottom 24 is secured to the bottom 22 of the carrier 18, behind a short upstanding front wall25, the false bottom 24 being provided with a plurality of seats 26 of such size that they will receive the end of the butt of a gun. The barrel of the gun is adapted to be received in seats 27, in the form of notches, fashioned in the forward edge of a bracket 28 which extends across the carrier 18. The barrels of the guns are held in the seats 27 by any suitable means, such as a latch button 29 pivoted ii'itermediate its ends at 30 to the forward edge of the bracket 28 and held in closed relation to the seats 27 by frictional engagement with the forward end of the bracket 28.

The door 14 may be opened, thereby giv ing access to the guns, in the gun carrier 18, and the gun carrier may be swung out 'wardly to an open position, thereby to give access to the chamber 11 wherein the gar ments and the like are hung, and, also, to give access to the compartment 17 which poles, gun rods, and the like. The entire carrier 18 may be lined as at 40 with felt, cloth, or any other suitable material.

Between the partition 10 and one of the sides 1 of the cabinet extend a plurality of shelves 31 and 32, the lowermost shelf being designated by the numeral 32. The shelves sides 20, a top form compartments in which are slidably mounted drawers indicated at 33. Between the lowermost shelf and the bottom 2 of the enbinet there existe n receptacle 3at-for boots and other large articles, access being had to the receptacle 3% by means of a door :35 which is hinged at 36 to one of the sides 1. in the drmrers 33 only bestoredninmn nition, fishing; tackle and the like.

What claimed A cabinet provided with a chamber which is open'nt the front, the cabinetbeing supplied with :1 eon'ipnrtinent located at the front of the cabinet, the con'i'partnientbeing Emmi-i c'rn L. Room; {2%. ALBERT F, WILLIAMS. 

